I learned in church today

[TheAzzuri]

I learned this week that you should not ask two historically unreliable people to speak on the same day. One may be ok, but not two. If you do then the Bishop will get a call at 6:30 in the morning from one speaker cancelling and the other will leave at message at the church. This will result in the bishop writing a 20 minute talk in 30 minutes over breakfast and asking the visiting member of the High Council to speak as well.

We had a situation like that once. Instead of impromptu talks, the Bishop (with the organist's permission) invited people to come up and briefly share why they liked a particular hymn. We then sang that hymn as a congregation. It turned out really well.

[Moliere]

I learned in EQ this week that, according to the instructor, "Back in the day, women actually loved polygamy because it gave them someone to talk to -- their sister wives. Women weren't as isolated as they were before polygamy."

Makes sense because the telephone and FB had not yet been invented. Also, families probably lived far apart so women in monogamous marriages likely only talked to small children all day.

[Paperback Writer]

Makes sense because the telephone and FB had not yet been invented. Also, families probably lived far apart so women in monogamous marriages likely only talked to small children all day.

There's actually a lot of truth to that statement. Perhaps you know this. Many polygamous families did not live in close proximity or the sister-wives did not get along. There was a lot of variation in my family history from literally sisters being married to the same man and raising their children together, wives forging a workable realtionship between each other and their families, to wives being isolated and not getting a lot of face time with their husband and father of their children. It's the latter situation where mothers formed an unusual relationship with their older children and the relationship changes from a mother-child relationship to a mother-friend/confidante relationship. Stories were told that many townsfolk thought a mother-daughter were really inseparable, best friends or sisters because their relationship took that form.

[Sleeping in EQ]

Last Sunday was a bad day at the rodeo. A sacrament meeting speaker said, "Don't question. Don't think. Just follow."

[Moliere]

Last Sunday was a bad day at the rodeo. A sacrament meeting speaker said, "Don't question. Don't think. Just follow."

Just out of curiosity, why do you call it a rodeo?

[wuapinmon]

That:

1. Brother Peavy's great grandfather was, and I quote (he said it twice), "The meanest white man in the world."

2. Going to the temple is a lot like going to DisneyLand. You forget what's going on in the outside world and you just concentrate on why you're there.

[Pheidippides]

I am listening to the speaker - the wife of a bishopric member - tearfully recount how her life was devastated by addiction. The harmful substance? Diet Coke.

[mUUser]

Story illustrated tithing principle: A family of 7 had absolutely no food in the house but paid tithing at church instead of spending money on food. On the way walking home from church, people started coming out of the woodwork to give them food. They had 2 weeks worth of food by the time they arrived at home -- more than they would have had if they'd spent the tithing money on food.

[TripletDaddy]

Today's theme is the Law of Chastity. The first speaker, a youth speaker that is 12, encouraged all of us to repent of any unresolved sexual sin. He also spoke of the importance of being "chast"

[Soccermom]

I am listening to the speaker - the wife of a bishopric member - tearfully recount how her life was devastated by addiction. The harmful substance? Diet Coke.

How exactly did diet coke devastate her life? Did she say?

[Pheidippides]

How exactly did diet coke devastate her life? Did she say?

Nope. Just that it did. She spoke of it in the same tones usually reserved for heroin or meth.

[Moliere]

That leaving 3 young kids unsupervised in sacrament meeting usually leads to an all out fist fight.....but at least you aren't there to witness it since you ar in th foyer with the other kid.

[All-American]

"We have people in this room who have cheated on their spouses."

[pellegrino]

man, when it rains it pours. Who decided it was crazy Mormon Sunday?

[DU Ute]

"We have people in this room who have cheated on their spouses."

I hope this was followed by a spirited rendition of "In This Very Room"